- Internal security better due to joint efforts of state institutions
ISLAMABAD: The spokesperson of former interior minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan on Saturday said that the duties of ministers are not restricted to giving statements but they should also find solutions to problems at hand.
While referring to decrease in internal security issues, he said, “The internal security is comparatively better not due to foreign funding or pressure, but because of Allah’s blessings and joint efforts.”
He further said that the federal and provincial governments, army, police and all other agencies were involved in this joint effort. “If ministers are now seeing any weaknesses, they should find a solution for that,” the spokesman asserted.
He said that if a certain minister had an issue he should have raised it in the cabinet or the national security committee meeting. He further said that important and crucial issues should not be discussed based on hearsay. In reality, Pakistan has given 26,000 lives and bore a loss of 100 billion. “After so many sacrifices, the world still raises fingers on us,” he said.
He went on to say that it is a peculiar situation right now; the army chief said that the world should do more now, but our interior minister and foreign minister said that we still need to do more. “Both of them are ministers for four years now, did they say anything related to this in cabinet or national security committee meetings,” he questioned.
He questioned whether the minister knows how popular his statement has gotten in India. “In India, people used this statement and built a narrative that all the problems are in Pakistan,” he added.
Nisar’s spokesman said that after so many successes, there are still some problems in national security. “These problems should be solved with mutual consent and hard work and not through statements that your enemy enjoys,” he added.
He said that national security is a sensitive issue so the ministers should place national interest before making a statement. “These statements are targeted towards the security agencies and Pakistan Army,” he said, adding that if one has to give such statements they should have the courage to make those statements clearly.